Tommy Sangchompuphen has served as a bar exam essay writing instructor and consultant for a national bar review company since 2000.

Tommy’s legal experience has spanned both sides of the bar, having worked for insurance defense firms and as founding partner of his own law firm. Tommy brings extensive experience as a professional journalist to his legal practice, giving him the ability to tackle complex and controversial subjects and issues in a plain, concise, persuasive, and easily understandable manner.

Tommy has written more than a hundred newspaper, magazine and law review articles, and has worked and written for several publications, including the legal desk at The Wall Street Journal, Law.com, The Dallas Morning News, The Yale Daily News, Minnesota Association of Scholars, Hamline Law Review, The Hennepin Lawyer, and the Minnesota State Bar Association’s Bench & Bar. He was the student editor of Student Lawyer magazine, the official publication for the American Bar Association’s law student division. During law school, he managed, edited, and published Quaere, the University of Minnesota Law School’s independent student newspaper.


Minnesota


University of Minnesota Law School, J.D.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, M.S.
Yale University, B.A.


Minnesota Essay Advantage, BAR/BRI Group, published by Thomson West, 2006.

 

"Internet Applicant Rule Has Attorneys Worried," Law Office Computing, April/May 2006.

“What Will Section 404 Mean for Overseas Companies?” Law.com, Dec. 20, 2005.

“E-Discovery Update 2004 – Part 2,” Digital Discovery & Electronic Evidence, January 2005.

“E-Discovery: Ethical Considerations in 2004 and Beyond,” E-Discovery Law & Strategy, December 2004.

“Ethical Implications of the Proposed FRCP Amendments,” Digital Discovery & Electronic Evidence, October 2004.

“Electronic Discovery and Business Law Alternative Dispute Resolution, The Arizona Business Lawyer, Fall 2004.

“New Rules Permit Attorneys to Earn CLE Credits When and Where They Want,” The Hennepin Lawyer, Dec. 2000.

“Testing the Limits: When Aggressive Reporting Becomes Illegal Conduct,” Bench and Bar of Minnesota, Aug. 2000, at 23-27.

“Is that Your Final Answer?: Are Insureds Entitled to Insurance Coverage for Trademark Infringement,” 23:2 HAMLINE L. REV.349-69 (2000) (with Louis Speltz and Ann Grayson).

“Stripping United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group Down to the Bare Essentials: Why Keeping Abreast of First Amendment Issues in Developing Technology Requires Predictability and a Return to Strict Scrutiny,” 23:1 HAMLINE L. REV. 82-100 (1999).

“An Analysis of Recent Decisions in Minnesota and the Eighth Circuit Addressing The Issue of Insurance Coverage for Trademark Infringement,” Bassford Remele, 1999.

“Illegal Tuition Waivers in Minnesota,” Academic Questions, Fall 1998.

“Sexual Harassment Update,” Arthur, Chapman, Kettering, Smetak & Pikala, P.A., August 1998 (with Sally Ferguson).

“The Colors of Money: Minnesota’s Illegal Financial Aid Program,” Minnesota Association of Scholars Report, February 1998.

“Law in Minnesota Lets Judges Give Juveniles Double Sentences,” The Wall Street Journal, August 11, 1995.

“More Law Students Seek Joint Degrees to Boost Job Chances,” The Wall Street Journal, August 7, 1995.

“College Prepayment Plan Is Focus of Patent Suit Against Florida,” The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 1995.

“Law Schools Take on Student Debt to Help Public-Interest Firms,”The Wall Street Journal, July 3, 1995.

“Drunk Drivers Claim They Are Punished Twice,” The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 1995.